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I wouldn’t buy any of those. Nor would I buy a router or any sort of networking device from Best Buy.
If a particular router looks more like an insect or an alien spaceship, instead of a simple rectangular enclosure, it is likely overpriced and overhyped.
In fact, you’ll get more for your money if you use wired-only router, and a separate wifi AP - similar to the benefit of using a separate modem from your router rather than a modem/router combo - you can choose devices that are best at their own job, rather than trying to either compromise or overspending.
Here is an article describing some good gigabit wired routers:
Sure, stop using wifi for tasks like that.
Use a hardwired Ethernet instead.
It will make no difference. You don’t even need shielded cable for residential, in most cases.
Run an Ethernet cable along the walls between the router and your PC.
Either along the floor, or along the ceiling.
Here is a 20 meter one for under 10€
Either of those would work fine.
Keep in mine that your wired devices need to connect to to your router as well - the router isn’t just for wifi, in fact wifi is a *secondary* function of a router.
Did you give the ISP the DOCSIS MAC address of the modem?
If not, it will never work, they have to register it on their network before it will be allowed to connect.
One, I would generally not recommend a modem/router combo at all, but instead separate devices.
Two, you only want a cable modem if you are subscribed (or are going to subscribe) to a cable ISP service. A cable modem would be absolutely useless for a fiber or VDSL service. (And if its a DOCSIS compliant modem, it should work with any DOCSIS compliant cable ISP)
So the first step before deciding what (or if) device you want to obtain, is to at least be certain what ISP/service you’re going to subscribe to.
And often, unless you have very specific needs and know exactly what you’re doing in advance, you’re usually better of starting by using whatever device the ISP you subscribe to provides, and THEN consider whether you need something different or additional. And if you’re seeking advice on reddit at that time, you should be sure to give the exact brand and model of the ISP provided device.
All that said, if I was going to buy a cable modem either to replace an ISP device or for a new service, I would probably get something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB8200-RB-Approved-Spectrum/dp/B07M8BNVSD/
And I would continue to use my existing wired router and separate wifi AP. I can see it probably making more sense for most end users to get a router with a wifi AP built in (aka “wireless router” to connect to their modem, and then connect both their wired and wireless devices through it.
I would do this.
Connect your PC directly to that wall port, and reboot it. If it then has Internet connectivity, check what IP address it is assigned (How you do that depends on what operating system you’re using - google it)
Once you’ve got its IP address, you want to see if it is a public/routable IP address, or a private/nonroutable one.
If its a public one, then you almost certainly only get ONE IP address from the connection, and cannot connect multiple devices without a home router (which do NAT to allow the one IP to be shared)
If it is a private one then you have some other issue. Note that once you install a router, then devices connected to its LAN will have private IP addresses, rather than the public one that will now be assigned to the router’s WAN interface.
Private nonroutable IP addresses include any that start with:
192.168.*
10.*
172.16.* through 172.31.*
as well as
100.64.* through 100.127.*
It would only work if the ISP router also supports aggregation in a way compatible with the switch (and you have access to configure the ports for it)
However, the point of greater-than-gigabit service is primarily to allow multiple devices to share the high speed. There are very few common situations where one individual device is going to be able to use that much at once.